Outside Scholarship Opportunities
This listing is intended to provide you with ideas on where to look for scholarships and alternative financial aid resources. These scholarships are administered and awarded by outside organizations and loan funding is reduced by the amount of the scholarship when students receive these awards. If awarded, please send the Outside Scholarship Report Form to finaidforms@luc.edu and copy law- financial-aid@luc.edu.
Each listing has its own criteria; as such, deadline dates, selection conditions, application processes, and other details will need to be verified for each scholarship/resource by the student. Please contact each individual source for complete, up-to-date details.
- Ongoing
Ongoing
- ALI CLE Scholarships
- Equal Access to Justice Scholarship and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Scholarship
Rotation between Chicago Schools
- January
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- February
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- March
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- April
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- May
AAJ Richard D. Hailey Scholarships
Description: Six scholarships open to all first and second year African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and Bi-Racial AAJ Law Student members.
Deadline: May 31Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Richard D. Hailey Scholarship
Description: Six scholarships open to all first- and second-year African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and Bi-Racial ATLA Law Student Members.
Deadline: May 31
Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Trial Advocacy Scholarship
Description: Open to all second and third-year ATLA Law Student Members.
Deadline: May 31
Law Preview Scholarships Sponsored By The Institute For Inclusion In The Legal Profession (IILP)
Description: Law Preview (the nation's largest law school prep course) has teamed up with the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession (one of the world's most influential organizations committed to improving diversity in the legal profession) to provide Law Preview Scholarships to select members of our entering class. The IILP has generously agreed to help entering students prepare for the unique challenges they will face during their 1L year at Loyola University Chicago School of Law by paying the cost of tuition for a law school prep course. Visit the following URL to see if you meet the scholarship criteria: www.lawpreview.com/scholarships.
Deadline: May 28
Minority Corporate Counsel Association – Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholarship Program
Description: Successful applicants to the scholarship program, who are reviewed by its Selection Committee, will be outstanding individuals who have been accepted to an accredited U.S. law school, and have demonstrated leadership and an interest in and commitment to diversity. While it is anticipated that many of the recipients will be students of color, the program is open to non-minorities as well. LMJ Fellowships will provide students with $10,000 a year for three years.
Deadline: May 31
Chicago Bar Foundation Kimball R. Anderson and Karen Gatsis Anderson Public Interest Law Fellowship
Description: The CBF first awarded the fellowship in 2003 and now awards a single $50,000 fellowship each year to an individual who demonstrates the following: (1) a commitment to public interest work (2) academic excellence in law school, and (3) outstanding character and integrity. Fellowship funds are awarded in ten installments of $5,000 over five years, contingent on continued compliance with the terms of the fellowship.
Deadline: May 15
Description: Awarded annually, the Scholarship is a grant of $1,000.00 towards payment of law school tuition. Application for the Scholarship is open to a person who is in his or her first year at a law school or who is applying to law school. The Scholarship will be awarded only to persons who graduated from a high school in the Central Valley of California.
Deadline: May 27ABA/Labor and Employment Law Writing Competition
Description: To stimulate interest in this important field of law among law students on legal topics of interest to professionals in the field, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers may award the following prizes: First place: $1500 and the winning article will be published in the ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law.
Deadline: May 15
The Catherine Albiston Prize for Recent Developments on Gender, Law & Justice
Description: The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice is now accepting submissions for its first annual student writing competition. In order to qualify for selection, the author must be enrolled as a student in law school for the Spring semester of 2012. If any part of a paper has already been published, or is to be published elsewhere, we cannot accept the piece. All entries must be submitted to BGLJ.Solicitations@gmail.com. Contact for more information.
Deadline: May 15Food and Drug Law Institute H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competitions
Description: The Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) sponsors the Writing Competitions to encourage law students interested in the areas of law that affect foods, drugs, devices, cosmetics, and biologics.
Deadline: May 31
International Association of Defense Counsel Writing Contest
Description: The International Association of Defense Counsel extends its invitation for participation in its Legal Writing Contest. All candidates enrolled currently enrolled at accredited law schools are eligible to submit articles.
Deadline: May 20
- June
June 1
- Adler Pollock and Sheehan Diversity Scholarship**
- Albert Pick, Jr. Fund**
- Warren E. Burger Prize
- American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship, Loan For Service
June 2
June 3
June 7
- Judge John R. Brown Award
- Alabama Law Foundation Cabaniss, Johnston Scholarship
- H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition
June 14
June 21
June 30
** - Signifies an incoming student scholarship
- July
- August
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- September
- October
Process Opens in October
- November
Process Opens in November
November 1
November 9
- December
